For our final class meeting, students brought in stories from domestic and international online newspapers about September 11th related current events.  They brought in a review of an anti-drug advertising campaign, a story about building a temporary memorial in New York, an account from a Scottish newspaper about the mourning of local victims, stories from Arab news services designed to elicit outrage about alleged human rights violations in "Camp X-ray" in Guatanamo bay, and an item about responses to the growing crisis in the Middle East from the electronic version of one student's "hometown" newspaper from her year as an exchange student in Spain.  

Online international news services present significant opportunities for composition instructors to explore "global rhetorics" with a class and the structure of national and international logics of news and editorial content.  In this particular case, pathos was emphasized in many of their choices.  Students argued that even the most explicitly informational "news" content relies on appeals to emotion.

Ironically, through our discussion of the emotional appeals of news in international contexts, students found themselves coming back to the emotional appeal of news in the domestic context, an area that many students considered subtext before taking the course.